Recent content by claireylou

I have done 3 water changes this weekend and sucked up untold quantities of poo! The ammonia levels are still the same 0.6 colour by the looks of things. There is still some more poo to suck up - every time I do it it stirs up the muck and therefore when it settles I realise I have yet more...

I think I have a 63 litre tank. I live near Ipswich. I have sucked up a heck of a lot of crud with the siphon, now that I have figured out how to use it!

Hi Waterdrop, Yes the advice I am getting from you and everyone else is brilliant - thank you! I have now fixed the filter, which is still running smoothly (touch wood), didn't change all of my filter sponges (due to nice bacteria etc), just done another water change by siphoning all of the...

Ok thank you! Will do one...

Thanks essjay x

Hi, I am new to fish keeping and I think so far I have been very lucky, by the sounds of things! I inherited a tank of fish from someone who was moving to America and have never had fish before (except cold water goldfish when very young!). I have a rekord 600 Jewel tank I think, but it is...

Hello everyone, I'm Claire and live in Suffolk, England. About 4 months ago I inherited some fish from my sister's friend who was moving to America. In the tank I have sand substrate and 3 living plants, (the rest are plastic plants) a shipwreck and a piece of driftwood. More importantly...

Well I did some water tests today...Nitrite was 0 looked the same before and after the test, Nitrate was 5, PH was 8.0 and Ammonnia was 0.6. What do these readings mean? The fish look OK, the water is still not completely clear, going to try the siphon again tomorrow, think I know what I'm...

Thanks Fett! I have sand at the bottom of the tank, coz it has loaches in it, but am trying to suck the crud out that is laying on top. I did go back out to another fish shop and got a "normal" manual siphon, but it must be a girl-action (or lack of it) because I am failing at that too! If I...

Thanks for that. Yes I found the instruction book for the jewel tank filter, but found it limited...The part I found hard without an instruction book was how to pull bits out of the built in filter, and even that you could! I think someone like me should write them and say: "Just pull the bits...

Thanks to both of you, for answering my concerns and not making me feel like the idiot I feel! I tried a water change (I had some Tetra AquaSafe given with the tank)...I also cleaned the filter sponges (as I only have 2 of the required 4 filter sponges to replace), the water this morning is...

Please help me! I 'inherited' some fish from my sister's friends whose family moving to America. We transported them over to my house and set them up, none of them died. That was about 4 months ago. Well I know I have a Juwel tank and from investigations on the internet I think it is a...